Here Is Your Life (Criterion Collection)

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This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boys development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the peopleall set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling, this enchanting filmpresented here in its original nearly three-hour cutis a reminder that Troell is one of European cinemas greatestand most sensitive illuminators of the human condition.

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This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boys development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of the peopleall set against the backdrop of a slowly industrializing rural landscape. With its mix of modernist visual ingenuity and elegantly structured storytelling, this enchanting filmpresented here in its original nearly three-hour cutis a reminder that Troell is one of European cinemas greatestand most sensitive illuminators of the human condition.